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  • I’d agree with the broad thrust of your comment that this isn’t exactly screaming “panic now, the end is nigh”.

    Being aware of vulnerabilities like this is important nonetheless.

    The nature of side channel attacks like this are that they’re incredibly difficult to spot and mitigate. This one does seem rather elaborate in that it requires software running on a pc but the attack you mentioned with the processor is decidedly stealthier. Just like timing attacks with fans, tempest style attacks - this stuff happens, and from a consumer pov if someone can interdict a package you order from Amazon and alter it then you’d never even know anything was even happening.

    Is this happening a lot? Probably exceedingly rarely. Is it a risk most people have to worry about? No. Is it a risk nonetheless? Yes.

    All I’m saying is that it’s important to be aware of the risks if you care about security.









  • I can do this too.

    Cats can communicate with ants by using quantum transmitters located in their butts to grant wishes, and I know this because my cousin Tommy once fucked a cat in the ass and a colony of fire ants granted his for Anne jet ski.

    Every cat is fluent in Persian and Ojibwe and every cat, everywhere, knows when a person pees, who they are, and where they’re peeeing.

    They possess an emotion humans can’t feel called sploofnury.

    Cats killed Jesus.

    All cats are actually the fruiting bodies of a rare kind of quantum mycelium. I’ve seen it by using x ray goggles I found on the bus so it’s definitely true.

    I once saw a cat quoting Shakespeare, in Ojibiwe, but it stopped when it saw me.

    Cats don’t actually die, they just turn into pillows when they’ve killed enough small animals.


  • Like. I get it. China is absolutely an authoritarian state. But it also isn’t coming apart at the fucking seams, really seems to have its shit together, and offers a very good quality of life if you make enough money, from what I’ve heard.

    It isn’t a glittering wonderland or anything but you’re not going to be deported for no fucking reason if you’re an expert in your field (unless you get on the wrong side of the government).

    The USA is coming apart at the seams. It isn’t just authoritarianism, it’s ineptitude and implosion. They’re totally different situations.